Look at it from our perspective:
1) The Mavs were the only team with a convincing win (game 2).
2) The Mavs had one of their top 2-3 healthy players taken away for one of their home games (Terry suspension), likely costing them that game.
3) The call on Ginobili near the end of game 7 HAD to be made. It wasn't a last-second play and Dirk was clearly fouled.
4) Bowen likely fouled Dirk on the final plays of regulation in games 1 and 4. Referees called one of them.
5) Like Duncan on the last play of regulation in game 7 when Dirk probably fouled him from behind, Dirk was fouled by Parker on the last play of regulation in game 5. Both rightly went uncalled.
6) All series long, Duncan got away with his hand-swipe on Mavs' defenders. The league told Cuban during the series that, he was right, that should be an automatic offensive foul and that it would be called. It was never called. Duncan was allowed to continue to do it. It continued to knock Mavs' defenders off balance, even falling into him at times, all while those should have been calls on Duncan (the league admitted). Cuban did some tracking during one of the games and found that when Duncan did the hand-swipe, he shot 70% from the field, when he didn't, he didn't have near the same success and even had his shot blocked by Dampier two times. Many of the fouls Duncan drew were partially a result of his illegal hand-swipe.
You didn't get screwed, you just got outplayed. With all of their healthy players available, the Mavs had 6 games, 4 in SA, and 2 in DAL. The Mavs managed to win 4 of those 6 including a blowout on the Spurs' home court. Without the Terry suspension (which while kind of iffy and weak, but was his fault no doubt), the Spurs probably would have been eliminated in 6. They got a gift from the league and Terry which is all that allowed it to go to 7.![]()
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